[Hac-announce] July 26--"Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" by David Quammen

[Manny Sholem Ratafia]

Note: This an event of Humanists and Freethinkers of Fairfield County.
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Happy Fourth of July!

For the next meeting of the HFFC Book Club, we will be discussing 
"Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" by David 
Quammen. (See quotes from reviews below.) We will meet online 7 pm 
Wednesday July 26.

There are lots of copies of “Spillover” in public libraries.

To join our discussion, you are expected to have read the book.

To get a link to the Zoom meeting, contact Mitch Tilkin at 
mitchtilk at gmail.com <mailto:mitchtilk at gmail.com> with the subject line 
“Spillover”.

Happy reading!

Manny Ratafia
manny at ratafias.com <mailto:manny at ratafias.com>

P.S.: The book discussion is for HFFC members and first time book 
discussion attendees only. To find out more about membership, go to 
www.hffcct.org/join <http://www.hffcct.org/join>

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/Spillover includes adventure, action, and mystery. Mr. Quammen journeys 
across the globe to track down the origins of human epidemics and 
pandemics. He consistently demonstrates that Ebola, SARS, and HIV/AIDS, 
among others, are the results of microbes jumping from animals to 
humans, zoonotic spillovers…Mr. Quammen’s journey is for everyone to 
take. Though a man of literature by training (Yale ’70, Oxford ’73), he 
displays qualities that make for an incisive scientist. Mr. Quammen is 
eagerly observant and relentlessly inquisitive. His language is 
accessible and inviting and builds a bridge between stuffy science and 
the public at large. Mr. Quammen makes the writing appropriate for 
anyone who may be curious about science. Your mother-in-law will learn 
something, as will your physician.
–Abdul-Kareem Ahmed, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

“An adventure-filled page-turner”
– Lizzie Wade, Wired
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/“David Quammen [is] one of that rare breed of science journalists who 
blend exploration with a talent for synthesis and storytelling.”
– Nathan Wolfe, Nature
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/“This is an extraordinary book…Each chapter follows the quest to track 
down a new villain. An international team of detectives works on the 
cases, and Quammen follows them as they uncover the traces which will 
lead them to the killers…As brilliant as Quammen is at describing the 
workings of viruses, he's also a masterful portrait painter, a close 
observer of people…The historical details are fascinating...”
– Alice Roberts, The Guardian
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/Much of the book details Quammen’s prodigious, globe-trotting 
adventures with microbe hunters in the field, trapping bats in southern 
China and hysterical monkeys in Bangladesh. …Quammen takes us to 
Australia, …and to central Africa … Borneo … China …Cameroon…fun and 
morbidly entertaining.
– Sonia Shah, New York Times
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-- 
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
— Charlie Chaplin


	
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